via zoom: https://otago.zoom.us/j/207435659
In attendance: Virginia Toy, Christina Riesselman, Chris Moy, Christian Ohneiser
Minutes
1. Blog posts
– Reminder to register for the Ocean Planet Workshop – 14-16 April in Canberra
Attendees at present Christina Riesselman, Chris Hollis, Stuart Henrys
Virginia emailed and recommended that Rupert Sutherland, Cecile Massiot, Julie Rowland, Jennifer Eccles…. Represent the hard rock/geophysics/structure world.
Virginia will also co-ordinate a submission from EGU by announcement at the IODP/ICDP Town Hall at 20:00 on 9 April, and by being based at the IODP/ICDP booth with a laptop and a draft science plan (we hope) on 11 April ready for people to drop by and contribute their thoughts.
– U.S. Scientific Ocean Drilling Beyond 2023 Workshop
– Latest ANZIC Bulletin including
• Special call for shore-based nanofossil specialist on Exp 385. Apply ASAP
• Article about an amazing IODP scientist Dr. Christina Riesselman !!
• Calls to sail (ie apply) for Expeditions 387 – Amazon Continental Margin and 388 – Equatorial Atlantic Gateway. These are both pretty novel projects that combine oceanic and continental drilling – a first for IODP/ICDP – and will thus be extremely cool to be involved in. Apply!
• Exp 358 – NanTroSEIZE phase 4 plate boundary thrust drilling news
• Exp 378 – Amundsen Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet drilling news
• Workshop reports – New Caledonia Peridotite and Aus-Antarctic transect.
• Reminder to register for the Ocean Planet Workshop
• ANZIC Program Scientist roadshow… dates have already passed and nothing planned in Dunedin.
Richard Blaikie was invited. Christina Hulbe attended instead.
Current IODP membership ends in 2020, at which time Oz will go up to full rather than half membership as at present (which will be $10 M/a)
There is a move at GNS to obtain higher level infrastructure funding to contribute better too. It’s the plan that Stuart Henrys was working on last year that stalled when GNS didn’t have a strategy manager… they are likely to hire one soon so this may move forward again.
Stuart wanted support from Universities. Victoria’s DVC Research has agreed to coordinate with other insititutions’ DVC Research to ensure there is a join submission of support from the Universities.
• Announcements for a couple of conferences
These are :
In conf on Paleooceanography 2-6 Sept Sydney Australia
3rd Int congress on stratigraphy 2-5 July Milan
Izu-Bonin Oct 27-Nov 2 Japan
• A survey administered by James Cook University evaluating the relationship between University training and the skills needed for Industry jobs.
2. Otago Core Repository Update
There is a steering group meeting this afternoon and its likely that further communications will be distributed thereafter. Please feel free to drop by and see how its going.
3. Other business
